Why didn't Barcelona clean up for so long?

And why is it so easy to send Suarez and Messi away? Their previous situation is still different:

In the summer of 2020, Suarez had one year left in his contract with Barcelona. Bartomeu invited Coleman as head coach under the slogan of "reconstruction". It is inevitable to send away the veteran. Rakitic and vidal left the team, but Suarez didn't stay. Suarez had a chance to go to Serie A, but failed in the language test, and Atletico Madrid was more active in action.

Theoretically speaking, how can you send such a top striker to your own league competitors? Originally, Suarez might choose other league teams because of his six-year friendship with Barcelona in order not to be an enemy of Barcelona. But the way Barcelona executives let him leave turned out to be a phone call. This made Suarez feel disrespected.

After Atletico won the league title, Suarez himself said that he wanted to prove to Barcelona at Atletico, so it was a mistake to give him up. This also gives Suarez such a good motivation at Atletico Madrid, and he is completely assisting Atletico Madrid.

The key point here is that even if Barcelona let him leave so rudely, Suarez did not say that he would not be free to leave after a season. Even in the end, even the salary for the remaining year of the contract was not paid by Barcelona. He joined Atletico Madrid without a transfer fee, only with a floating clause of several million euros. Suarez's aim is to leave as soon as possible. He is a man with dignity.

Messi's position is simpler. His contract with Barcelona expires on June 30th. Legally speaking, he is no longer a Barcelona player, which means he has nothing to do with Barcelona. The reason why everyone is still talking about "renewing the contract" is based on the fans' trust in the relationship between Barcelona and Messi.

This kind of "trust" is both strong and fragile. Unfortunately, Messi encountered "fragility" because the appearance of laporta personally destroyed this kind of "trust". Because there is no contract "protection", laporta's behavior is criticized by everyone, but he is not illegal in law, and we fans can only condemn him morally at best.

Seeing the examples of Suarez and Messi, we can know why Umtiti, Dembele and others find it so difficult to leave Barcelona. The answer is: no skin and no face, contract protection.

When Umtiti first came to Barcelona, it was really what the fans expected. His early performance also made the fans feel that he was the central defender of Barcelona in the next decade, but all this changed completely after the World Cup. In order to ask for a raise, he also used the "unprofessional" performance on the court to force the club to give him a raise; In some games, the pursuit is not active, just like watching on the court, and so on, which makes people feel helpless. The latest performance was coming off the bench in a friendly match, and the fans booed him loudly. As a result, he went straight back to the locker room after the game and didn't finish taking pictures with his teammates. This is a very disrespectful behavior to the fans and the team. He even accused the fans of being wrong after the game, completely unaware of where he was wrong.

Do you think such a player will be easily cleaned up? It's not that Barcelona didn't find him a home, but that he rejected them one by one. Judging from his performance on the court, he is still willing to go to a big team, and no big team is willing to take over. So it can't be said that Barcelona is unwilling to work hard to clean up, just because it does nothing. If he had Suarez's consciousness, he would have left the team long ago. Suarez can't accept not playing for a season, but Umtiti can. No club can solve this problem.

The biggest difference between the players that Barcelona fans want to clean and Messi is that they have a contract to "protect", which has become their amulet. It's not that the club doesn't want to clean them, so some fans don't have to bully Messi and treat Umtiti and others as treasures. Do you think it's possible? With laporta's means and thinking, even if there is a little possibility, it will not bring a little respect to Umtiti and others. Now we can only talk about it.

A few years ago, if you want to get rid of them, you can cancel the contract directly, but if Umtiti just doesn't give up the liquidated damages, Barcelona really can't afford it now. So these people, Barcelona can only want to send them away, but there is no way. It's even hard to get them to cut their salaries, because they feel there's nothing to talk about in their world.

What Barcelona can do now is to leave as soon as the contract expires, or the team is really waiting for money, and it is a last resort to reduce the salary and renew the contract. There are rumors that I want to renew my contract with Dembele, so I have this consideration. The club really needs money. In order to understand the urgent need, you can also reduce your salary and renew your contract. This does not mean that the club is trying to keep him.